Strong Hints On Flashing Your Xbox

customsex writes: "bunnie has written a nice one with pictures documenting his adventure flashing his bios on his xbox. check it." His page also points you to the Sony vs. Connectix case regarding reverse engineering of hardware.

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Phone message:

[mESSDan]

That phone message was pretty funny, the x-box guy sounds pretty nervous/antsy. "We'd uh, like you to remove that rom image, and uh, call us when you do. Or call me and uh, we can talk about it."

One cool thing to note is that this wasn't a lawyer calling him, it was one of the x-box dev guys.

Doesn't MS lose money on every Xbox?

[Anonymous Coward]

And make money on every game to make up for it?

So, let's all buy an Xbox, convert it to running Linux, and come up with a cool open source development environment to build our own games.

We can destroy MS and get a good gaming console out of it at the same time. :)

I would also love to make a C64 emulator CDROM with about 500 old games and a nice menuing system to select which games to play, and make the save and load work from all the games as well.

A system like the X-box would be great for that.

"Flashing" an XBOX?

[bnitsua]

Do we really need to post a story everytime some guy plays Halo naked in front of his television?

Sure, you can hack an X-box

[multiplexo]

But I'm waiting for someone to hack the new Maytag Neptune washer and dryers, the ones with the 4" plasma touch screen. I want one that will run Linux and play DVDs while I'm doing my laundry. Or actually if I had the washer and dryer I could have one running Linux and the other serving as a game/DVD console, and I could wash my clothes.